Most time spent on anything here is wasted. Most notables are worthless, the drama surrounding who bakes is less than worthless, most hours spent scouring through news searching for coded information amounts to little more than the hobby of the unemployed or retired.
But it's the small amount of mindblowing information collected that makes it worth it. Mining companies blow up entire mountains and sift through the rubble to find the relatively small amount of minerals. This is the digital version of that.